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"I have created a slack app" -- just repackaged a webview.

I was intrigued because slack used to have APIs and and IRC proxy, and I was wondering if the author has used some kind of weird way to connect to slack and impersonate an user.

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Slack still has the same realtime and RPC-style APIs.

It's also actively fighting against just writing an alternative client, IIRC from my experiences trying to run weechat-slack

My experience with wee-slack is pretty good, actually. Although lately I've been running the "native" app.

Are they usable for the purpose of writing a client?

No, they seem explicitly designed to avoid interactive use an end user.

Ah, that's what I felt. Thank you.

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